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“The Three Little Pigs<\/b>” is a\u00a0fable<\/a>\u00a0about three\u00a0pigs<\/a>\u00a0who build their\u00a0houses<\/a>\u00a0of different materials. A\u00a0Big Bad Wolf<\/a>\u00a0blows down the first two pigs’ houses which are made of\u00a0straw<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0sticks<\/a>\u00a0respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig’s house that is made of\u00a0bricks<\/a>. The printed versions of this fable date back to the 1840s, but the story is thought to be much older. The earliest version takes place in\u00a0Dartmoor<\/a>\u00a0with three\u00a0pixies<\/a>\u00a0and a fox before its best known version appears in\u00a0English Fairy Tales<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Joseph Jacobs<\/a>\u00a0in 1890, with Jacobs crediting\u00a0James Halliwell-Phillipps<\/a>\u00a0as the source. In 1886, Halliwell-Phillipps had published his version of the story, in the fifth edition of his\u00a0Nursery Rhymes of England<\/i>, and it included, for the first time in print, the now-standard phrases “not by the hair of my chiny chin chin” and “I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in”.[<\/span>1]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>2]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The phrases used in the story, and the various\u00a0morals<\/a>\u00a0drawn from it, have become embedded in\u00a0Western culture<\/a>. Many versions of\u00a0The Three Little Pigs<\/i>\u00a0have been recreated and modified over the years, sometimes making the wolf a kind character. It is a type B124[<\/span>3]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0folktale in the\u00a0Thompson Motif Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Traditional versions<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

“The Three Little Pigs” was included in\u00a0The Nursery Rhymes of England<\/i>\u00a0(London and New York, c.1886), by\u00a0James Halliwell-Phillipps<\/a>.[<\/span>4]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in\u00a0English Fairy Tales<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Joseph Jacobs<\/a>, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source.[<\/span>5]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The earliest published version of the story is from\u00a0Dartmoor<\/a>,\u00a0Devon<\/a>, England in 1853, and has three little\u00a0pixies<\/a>\u00a0and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy had a wooden house:<\/p>\n

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“Let me in, let me in”, said the fox.
\n“I won’t”, was the pixy’s answer; “and the door is fastened.”[<\/span>6]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Illustration from J. Jacobs,\u00a0English Fairy Tales<\/i>\u00a0(New York, 1895)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to “seek out their fortune”. The first little pig builds a house out of\u00a0straw<\/a>, but the wolf blows it down and devours him. The second little pig builds a house out of\u00a0sticks<\/a>, but the result is the same. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely:<\/p>\n

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“Little pig, little pig, let me come in.”
\n“No, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin.”
\n“Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in.”[<\/span>7]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The third little pig builds a house out of\u00a0bricks<\/a>, which the wolf fails to blow down. The wolf then attempts to meet the pig at a turnip field, an apple orchard, and a fair, but the pig always arrives early and avoids the wolf. Finally, the infuriated wolf resolves to come down the\u00a0chimney<\/a>, whereupon the pig lights a fire under a pot of water on the fireplace. The wolf falls in and is\u00a0fatally boiled<\/a>, avenging the death of his brothers. After cooking the wolf, the pig proceeds to eat him for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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